Strange problem with basic html anchor tag linking to my domain
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I have some old valuable followed links from high ranking domains and I noticed from moz reports they are reporting 404.Visually they looked fne but when I clicked on those they indeed were generating 404.
When I researched further they are defined as
My domain.com Notice there is extra space between "/" and the closing quote. It turns out it is sending "www.mydomain.com/ " to browsers.
Any ideas How to solve this? If I should put a perm redirect in apache, how do I deal with these "%C2%A0" characters. It seems the issue is happening at more than one remote domain.
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Many thanks, Timbronz The solution you suggested worked perfectly. The "\x" is a particularly very different insight as just escaping "%" with "" does not work.
Dennis Seymor,
it is finding that way to redirect was the toughest problem as just escaping does not work and this has stumped many.
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I have found this .htaccess solution on Shortstack - it may solve the issue, but you will have to check as I have as yet not had the chance.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^\xC2\xA0/?$ / [L,R=301]Or if you have to use mod_alias:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/\xC2\xA0/?$ /Let me know if it works.
Tim
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You can ask them to change it or just find a way to redirect http://www.mydomain.com/ back to the correct page. Whichever is easier.
That's pretty much the only options I'd have if I were in the situation.
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